Rovio Entertainment Ltd., the games company behind the immensely popular Angry Birds franchise, is changing its business strategy, aiming to earn more money by making its games free. The company has spent years building a revenue base by offering Angry Birds games that cost money to download. But now it has changed course and entered […]
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The Ponzi scheme has been a recurring fixture of economic life in rich and poor nations at least since the 19th century, creating a few millionaires and ruining the lives of millions. Yet most people have only a vague idea of what they are, which may explain why so many continue to fall for their
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When Nigerian prince scam spam hits our inboxes, most of us know to politely decline requests for assistance. One might wonder why scammers don’t come up with something a bit more believable. But according to a new paper (pdf) by Cormac Hurley of Microsoft Research, the email’s overt scaminess helps identify the biggest suckers. Source: http://www.onthemedia.org/story/234397-why-nigerian-email-scams-work/.
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Eyes-On Glasses are billed as the world’s first wearable point-of-care system for real-time vascular imaging. The glasses allow the wearer to identify a patient’s veins by “seeing through†their skin using the company’s patented near-infrared (NIR) visualization. In the very near future, the wearable device could make delivering injections and positioning intravenous catheters a lot
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It turns out that for many of the games on The Price is Right, a simple application of game theory is all you need to greatly increase your chances of winning. You don’t even need to know any of the prices. Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/11/winning_the_price_is_right_strategies_for_contestants_row_plinko_and_the.html.
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In 2012 I bought an apartment specifically to rent out on airbnb. I’ve been managing it remotely for the past year. This post includes everything I learned as well as some revenue numbers. Source: http://needwant.com/p/buying-apartment-airbnb/.
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“There are two markets for comic books,†Salkowitz says. “There’s the market for gold-plated issues with megawatt cultural significance, which sell for hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of dollars. But that’s a very, very, very limited market. If a Saudi sheik decides he needs Action Comics No. 1, there are only a few people
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In Frauenwald, there’s a museum inside an old military bunker leftover from GDR times. Rather than simply perusing the Soviet-era tchotchkes, why not slip on an old military uniform, line up with fellow pretend comrades in front of your pretend commander and salute a portrait of old General Secretary Honecker? For $150, you can. Source:
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